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The Eclectic World of Lisa Eisner

From her tight-knit clan to her passion for nature, the artist and designer finds inspiration in all the corners of her colorful life.

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Lisa Eisner

Lisa Eisner

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A multihyphenate before it was popular to be one, Lisa Eisner has approached her varied career pursuits — fashion editor, stylist, photographer, publisher, jewelry designer, collector, connector — with a distinctly Western savoir-faire. Born in Greybull, Wyo., Eisner credits the over-the-top glamour of her home state’s rodeo queens for her early fascination with fashion. That led her to New York City, where she landed a job at Mademoiselle, and then to France, where she worked in American Vogue’s Paris office. After a stint in Ralph Lauren’s design department, Eisner settled in Los Angeles, where she married the movie and music mogul Eric Eisner, raised two sons and shifted her focus to photography. “Rodeo Girl,” the first of several documentary projects inspired by her childhood, begat Greybull Press, which Eisner ran for 8 years with Commune design studio’s co-founder Roman Alonso. Her latest venture is her namesake line of jewelry, the result of a lifelong interest in the subject. “It’s armor, it’s decoration, it’s ceremonial,” she says. To mark the collection’s official coming out, she teamed up with her close friend the fashion designer Tom Ford on a range of pieces for his spring show incorporating Simbircite gemstones and hand-forged bronze, inspired by her love of the American West. “My style changes depending on who I want to be,” she says. “It’s pure instinct.”